New free school needs a head

The action group behind Reading’s first ‘free school’ is on the hunt for a headteacher to start this September.

The non-selective school will be based in August House opposite All Saints CE Infants School in Brownlow Road, West Reading.

Members of the All Saints Action Group were given the go-ahead by education secretary Michael Gove in November to create the school.

Campaigners launched plans to set up a new school to address a shortage of junior school places in the area. Free schools opt out of local authority control and are funded directly by central Government and can also seek commercial funding.

The new school will provide places for 120 children aged seven to 11 from next September.